https://noisybox.net/images/favicon.ico https://noisybox.net/images/profile_pic_200.png © 2017 jason plumb / noisybox / infiltration lab. 2022-03-14T03:00:00.000Z Jason Plumb jason@noisybox.net urn:uuid:75392340-704d-463f-9dc0-98b78c24a4bc https://noisybox.net/blog/2022/03/experimental_compositions_homework4 2022-03-14T03:00:00.000Z <p>Last week was the fourth and final week for the <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/experiences/composing-experimental-music-course">experimental music course</a> I&#39;ve been taking. Due to being busy with other things, I had put off the &quot;homework&quot; for a week and got back to experimentation this weekend.</p> <p>Last week&#39;s lesson was all about synth techniques. What a doozy! I feel like that&#39;s a very difficult subject to cram into a 90 minute session. Even if you can be certain that people have some exposure to basic signal theory and techniques, it&#39;s really difficult to describe a patch and there&#39;s definitely some problems around expecting people to have access to specific modules (are formant and shepherd filters that commonplace? lol). As an exhibition, it was very cool...but as a teaching/learning session, I think it was a bit of a stretch.</p> <a href="https://noisybox.net/blog/images/2022-03-12-synth_homework.jpg"> <img alt='patched eurorack suitcase synth with amplifier' src='https://noisybox.net/blog/images/2022-03-12-synth_homework_sm.jpg'/> </a> <p>I did 3 or 4 different patches, one of which was strongly inspired by one of Jamie Stewart&#39;s example patches in the class (although I made a couple small tweaks). I took some of the session audio and arranged it into this rough track:</p> <audio controls> <source src="https://noisybox.net/blog/images/Infiltration%20Lab%20-%20Pupa%20Telepathy.mp3" type="audio/mpeg"> Your browser does not support the audio element. </audio> <p>Direct links to files here: <a href="https://noisybox.net/blog/images/Infiltration%20Lab%20-%20Pupa%20Telepathy.flac">flac</a> <a href="https://noisybox.net/blog/images/Infiltration%20Lab%20-%20Pupa%20Telepathy.mp3">mp3</a></p> <p>Honestly, in a pretty dark place while making these. Stoked with how they turned out, but the mix could use a lot of love, something that I&#39;m not going to put time into right now though.</p> https://noisybox.net/blog/2018/03/arcade_switch_gate 2018-03-02T22:42:02.000Z <p>I made a DIY eurorack module using 3 arcade switches to trigger gates. Check it out:</p> <p><a href='/electronics/arcade_gate'><img alt='20180302-arcade_gate_final_wiring_04_1024.jpg' src='https://noisybox.net/blog/images/20180302-arcade_gate_final_wiring_04_1024.jpg'/></a></p> https://noisybox.net/blog/2017/06/helper_tool_for_music_thing_modular_radio_music 2017-06-28T03:23:20.000Z <p>The <a href="https://github.com/TomWhitwell/RadioMusic">Radio Music</a> by <a href="http://www.musicthing.co.uk">Music Thing Modular</a> is a awesome eurorack module that uses a <a href="https://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy32.html">Teensy</a> to play back sample files from an SD card with/out CV.  It&#39;s awesome.</p> <p>I wanted to build out my own sample pack by extracting audio from a set of video files, and built a tool to help do that.  Maybe you&#39;re into this stuff and want to check it out too? Here&#39;s the source on github:</p> <p><a href="https://github.com/breedx2/mtm_radio_extractilizer">https://github.com/breedx2/mtm_radio_extractilizer</a></p> https://noisybox.net/blog/2017/01/sub_zero_synth 2017-01-02T18:19:26.000Z <p>I made some textures with a synthesizer in sub-zero temperatures. Pretty fun, even with just a small number of starter modules...</p> <p><video controls="" height="480" loop="true" width="640"><source src="http://noisybox.net/blog/images/VID_20170101_155741.mp4" type="video/mp4"> No soup for you.</video></p> https://noisybox.net/blog/2015/07/synth_noise_test 2015-07-16T04:25:08.000Z <p>Trying out the whopping 4 modules I have installed...</p> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2pQ8g2uAIzc" width="560"></iframe>